Gateley Legal

Andrew was responsible for creating the banking & finance team at Gateley and has overseen the development of a national team. Having started life as a corporate lawyer in private equity transactions, Andrew’s focus is advising on corporate and banking transactions; he is regularly involved in complex structured finance and corporate lending deals, including leveraged buy-outs, project finance and restructuring.  Andrew’s clients include many of the leading banks and financial institutions operating in the UK, as well as private equity investors and corporate borrowers. Andrew is responsible for managing many of Gateley’s national bank panel appointments. He also advises on ABL transactions, cross-border and syndicated lending.

Alison specialises in acquisition, corporate and leveraged finance and acts for banks, funds and alternative lenders in their roles as senior (including unitranche), super senior RCF or mezzanine lender as well as private equity investors. Alison has particular expertise in acting both investor and lender side on sponsor-backed acquisitions, and advises on bilateral and syndicated finance transactions across a wide range of industries. Alison has spent some time in-house at Barclays Bank where she gained experience in project and infrastructure finance as well as general corporate lending, and was heavily involved in a bank-wide project to improve the setting and measurement of financial covenants. Alison also has experience in real estate finance and ABL transactions.

Chris acts for lenders and borrowers on a broad range of financing transactions.  He has extensive experience and is highly knowledgeable in corporate/leveraged finance, real estate finance, asset-based lending and structured finance.  His clients have included major UK and international banks, challenger banks and other alternative lenders, debt investment funds and private equity houses, together with corporate borrower clients in a wide variety of sectors and industries. Chris has significant asset finance experience, principally involving aviation and rail, where clients have included the Department for Transport, transport specialist banks, and owner-lessors and operating lessees of planes and rolling stock. Chris also has a strong working knowledge of restructuring, enforcement and insolvency matters. Chris studied Law at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2003.  He qualified as a Solicitor in 2007 and spent the first eight years of his career with the London office of a “Magic Circle” law firm.  This period included client secondments to the securitisation transaction execution team of a major international bank and to the in-house legal team of a rolling stock owner-lessor.  More recently, Chris was a Partner with an award-winning regional law firm before joining Gateley Legal in January 2020.